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Dec 26, 2019

On this episode of Staring Into The Abyss, a very tired Scott Kemper tells us about his late, late night seeing The Misfits play at Madison Square Garden and hitting the cinema to see the debut of Robert Eggers's latest film, The Lighthouse, starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. Co-hosts Matt Brandenburg...


Dec 19, 2019

Join us by the fire and carve off a slice from the Yule Log - it's Christmas in the Abyss! In this special holiday episode, Scott, Michael, and Matt discuss X-Mas horror, like Valancourt's Victorian Christmas anthologies, Krampus, and Hark, The Herald Angels Scream. Then, they settle in, all cozy and warm, for an...


Dec 12, 2019

This week, our hosts Scott Kemper, Matt Brandenburg, and Michael Patrick Hicks discuss the Merrimack Halloween Book Festival and its panels on foreign cinema and horror versus thriller, as well as Stephen Chbosky's Imaginary Friends, Shudder's Creepshow episodes two and three, One Cut of the Dead and Hulu's Starfish,...


Nov 28, 2019

This week, Scott and Michael pressure Matt into buying Jeff Strand's Clown vs. Spiders, go off on book buying binges of their own, and talk about library sales and vintage movie novelizations. Then they launch into an in-depth, spoiler-filled discussion of The Latham-Fielding Liaison, a just-released limited hardcover...


Nov 14, 2019

Hosts Scott Kemper, Matt Brandenburg, and Michael Patrick Hicks take a deep, spoiler-filled dive into Books One and Two of John F.D. Taff's apocalyptic serial novel, The Fearing, its potential legacy in the years of horror to come, how it stacks up against 2019's other big apocalypse novel, Chuck Wendig's Wanderers, and...